Website Setup

Website Setup covers the core configuration decisions that shape how a site performs, behaves, and scales from the start — choosing a platform, initial settings, theme or template selection, URL structure, core page creation, and getting comfortable with your chosen editor. The emphasis throughout is on sequencing: many of these decisions are difficult or disruptive to change once content is live and indexed.

Whether this is a first build or a fresh setup for a client project, this category covers the choices that matter most and the defaults that need changing before anything goes public — plus the decisions that are easy to put off but expensive to revisit later, like category structure, navigation hierarchy, and how pages and posts relate to each other.

The articles assume a live hosting environment and a real site rather than a local sandbox. The goal is a site that’s genuinely ready to publish on, not one that technically works but still needs untangling a few months in.